Posts by SHG
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...denial of service attack, which took his site out for two days.
But it did more than that. It provided access for unnamed persons to retrieve a trove of correspondence between Slater, Ede and other senior figures
I just don't see how that's possible. Unless Slater was running a mailserver and/or storing archived correspondence on the same box as his webserver, which would be fucking retarded for a site like his.
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That's like saying "calling a Tiger Moth an aeroplane is ridiculous, because a Boeing 747 is really really big".
It is completely sensible and noncontroversial to at that Tiger Moths and 747s are both aeroplanes.
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He first compares the status of Māori in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to the aristocrats of the Ancien Régime
But that's not what he does. He compares their status as legally privileged groups within the legal frameworks of their respective countries and eras. That is a sense in which a comparison is completely sensible and uncontroversial.
See, this is like one of those "words that scientists use and what they actually mean" examples that have to be trotted out in climate science discussions. When Whyte used the word "privileged" everyone flipped out because in postmodern PC wank that word signifies PATRIARCHAL DOMINANCE. So postmodern PC wankers instantly reacted as if Whyte had accused Maoris of occupying a PATRIARCHAL DOMINANT position within NZ culture.
But that's not what he said, in the same way that a climate scientist reporting "positive results" is not saying that the results are good. Whyte simply said that Maoris of modern NZ and the Ancien Regime of pre-revolution France are comparable in that they are legally-privileged groups. That's a simple statement of fact.
Anyone who splutters latte onto his scarf in outrage about it is, simply, a fucking idiot.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
even John Key realises that he's the prime minister and he has a job to do
You can tell the guy who realises that because when he goes on television he dresses like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30697024/paulhenry-jk.jpg
You can tell the guy who really has no clue because he goes on television dressed like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30697024/paulhenry-dc.jpg
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to Deborah,
Davis said
this is how we as males need to behave towards our women
How long until the knives come out for his use of the possessive "our"?
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to The Ruminator,
@The Ruminator:
Shane Jones was the Internet Party's mystery MP too. So the whole thing is just ... weird.
Shane Jones was not and had never been an Electorate MP. A List MP is of no use to Dotcom.
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Notes & Queries: Little CD in a Prospect…, in reply to Russell Brown,
That is still an extremely ill-advised column.
In what way? Looks to me like she was on the money.
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Herkt: "She felt herself to be old – ‘old, old, old’ was one reiteration I remember as she watched a clip of herself on TV. "
So Deborah Hill Cone was right then?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11208554
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Right-wing mouthpiece Idiot/Savant had this to say about Curran's "commitment":
'Forgive my suspicion, but we all know that “we’ll consider it” is soothing politician-speak for FOAD'
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In this clash between a young Maori man and the police, I must say my sympathies lie with whichever side does not use the word "thorts".